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To see all of the Spring Quarter courses and read more information about them: 24SQ Updated Film and Media Department Course Offerings (PDF)
Producing is an in-depth examination of the role of the Producer in motion pictures, television, and new media. This course explores the role of merging both business and Creative Producing in guiding a project from idea to script to screen. The first section takes that journey through the development process and the second section follows that process through production and post-production.
This course focuses on the representation of race and class in American cinema in order to consider the ways film shapes our understanding of, and helps reproduce, the dominant U.S. social order. Inseparable from, yet also irreducible to, one another, “Race and Class in American Cinema” looks to unpack the relationship between “race” and “class” by studying its appearance in American film. Since Hollywood, and the entertainment industry generally, are historically invested in the construction of race and, as capitalist enterprises, structurally committed to the reproduction of a class society, film is an apt site for exploring the contradictions endemic to a society whose self-conception celebrates freedom and equality, but whose history testifies to inequality and domination. This course, then, explores American cinematic representations of “race” and “class” as contestations over the meaning of identity, equality, and liberation within the constraints of the existing status quo. Students will study examples from throughout the history or American cinema, including “landmark” films like The Birth of a Nation), contemporary popular movies such as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, as well as independent, documentary, and experimental films from outside the mainstream commercial cinema.
Read More about FILM 3910-01: Race & Class in American Cinema
Every student is strongly encouraged to consider taking at least ONE internship for credit in Fall Quarter and one additional (paid or unpaid) no credit internship before you graduate. It’s an essential way to network and gain professional experience!
According to a recent study from Michigan State University,* employers go on to offer 50 percent of their interns fulltime jobs.
(*Collegiate Employment Research Institute, Report, 2017. Study reported in NY Times, April 7, 2017)
A 5-credit internship requires 15 hours weekly with the employer. In addition to these hours, you will also need to meet with your academic supervisor and complete specified academic assignments (such as a storyboard, reports, visual media samples, research projects or a final reflective essay). We will work together to find the best academic requirements that match your internship and professional interests.
Your internship could also be split into two separate internships taken over two different quarters but generally must add up to 5 credits (unless you don't need 5 full credits to graduate in your credit count). There is flexibility in the credit count to accommodate your work schedule or credit count needs. There are no summer internships for credit (but you can do them for no credit)
These are the hour requirements you must work for the employer, for an internship for credit:
5 Credits = 15 hours/week or 150 hours/quarter
4 Credits = 12 hours /week or 120 hours/quarter
3 credits = 9 hours /week or 90 hours/quarter
2 credits = 6 hours /week or 60 hours/quarter
1 credit = 3 hours/week or 30 hours/quarter
Here are just a sampling of recent internships featured on Handshake, the platform that offers you access to internships, career information and more.
Internships can be taken for credit toward the major.
Check out the College of Arts and Sciences' Pathways to Professional Formation website with information about internships and how to get them.
Create a Student account on the new national website, Handshake, to search for internships and apply for them.
If you know an employer who might be a suitable candidate for an internship, get them to register themselves on Handshake here and then post the position there. Instructions for posting jobs are available here.
Do you have more questions? Make an appointment with the Career Engagement Office.
We also have a number of dedicated internships that are reserved just for Film & Media majors!
Once you have found a suitable internship, applied for it and secured it, then register for it by filling out the internship packet. These are available, with the Student Internship Registration Instructions , below. Then, make an appointment with Dr. Thompson to register for 5 credits (or less) for the next quarter.
Email Dr. Kirsten Moana Thompson, Internship Director, Film Department.
Download this document for complete instructions on registering for an internship
Film Internship Application Instructions
Questions?
Contact Dr. Thompson or make an appointment to see her.
